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IOP Publishing, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 10(22), p. S125-S138, 2005

DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/22/10/001

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The LTP experiment on the LISA Pathfinder mission

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Abstract

We report on the development of the LISA Technology Package (LTP) experiment that will fly onboard the LISA Pathfinder mission of the European Space Agency in 2008. We first summarize the science rationale of the experiment aimed at showing the operational feasibility of the so-called transverse–traceless coordinate frame within the accuracy needed for LISA. We then show briefly the basic features of the instrument and we finally discuss its projected sensitivity and the extrapolation of its results to LISA.